Screen size doesn't matter; it's good for businesses. I like what I see. Blackberry (and Microsoft) have the OS and the hardware needed to be relevant (if not monstruous) competitors. All they need are customers.Reply

Nothing is more embarrassing than rap at a conference, especially a room full of suits... I doubt that even rappers rap at rap conferences. It's even more embarrassing than Ballmer sweating all over the products.Reply

While I would probably never do it, the fact that I could stream my presentation as well as video and audio of myself to a meeting room and have someone else with a BB plug into a projector... remote meetings just got a lot more mobile. Of course, this would really be awesome if there was a desktop app to support the communication protocol - most meeting rooms have a computer connected... not BB10s.Reply

That is what Blackberry Bridge is all about. Use a Playbook (assume a second Z10 could be used) to host a powerpoint presentation (yes i said powerpoint) and use your phone to remotely control the slides progression.Reply

Everybody considers iPad a mobile device, so yes, Surface is mobile and Windows 8 on ARM is mobile too. Which makes MS undisputed leader in converging desktop and mobile worlds, no matter what Anand said here. No one else has anything close to this dual-personality OS.

MS has Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 none of which are compatible with each other. That is hardly what I would consider 'convergence.' MS is clearly trying but I would hardly put them ahead of Apple or Google when it comes to a seamless desktop to mobile transition. Google may actually be closest with their tight integration of services but its still clearly not what Anand is talking about.Reply

Windows 8 and Windows RT are not compatible with each other? How about you Metro app that's easily compiled to both of these and works out of the box on both? How about portable .Net assemblies in VS 2012 that are compiled for ALL THREE OF THESE OSes? If you don't know about this stuff doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just means you have to learn the basics. And if you think Google has anything like Windows on dekstgop market, you need your head checked.Reply

Reminiscence of Palm Pad, later HP Pad, later oblivion...This is exactly the feeling I got from RIM's presentation.My friends developers have been approached months ago by BB teams, in order to develop apps for BB...of course, the developers are not interested - they have only the resources to cover iOS and Android.Even Windows 8 phone is not getting yet much traction in the developers community.

During yesterday's launch event I had multiple live blogs up and the live video stream from the event. The amount of detail and number of photos post here at AT was perhaps 10% of the detail that was actually being demonstrated and reported by other fine tech sites who were covering this event.

If this would have been an Apple launch event the enthusiasm in the reporting/writing would have been far different. I definitely feel like AT has let it's readers down, and the bias towards certain companies is becoming more and more evident everyday. It just leaves a sour taste in the month that's all.

I was lucky enough to get to use a Z10 yesterday within minutes of the event ending and was comparing it to my archaic BB Bold 9700. It was a world of difference and breath of fresh of air between the new and old. It was so light, rigid, but felt soft to touch and fast, fast, fast UI. The transitions between Hub and applications are so fluid without any lag. Reply

Unfortunately for RIM, sorry BlackBerry, the real world doesn't reconcile with the fantasy you live in. iOS has solid penetration into Fortune 500 companies, both for iPhones and iPads. The ones who have extremely strict security requirements are using services/apps from Good and others. The bottom line is that almost none of the users CHOOSE a BlackBerry when given the option. And even in Fortune 500 there's often a choice between an iPhone 5 or something like a Bold 9900/9930/9650. Go talk to the mobile telecom departments in those companies and ask how many users opt for the BlackBerry. Your massive business segment has been leaving RIM in droves for years while they've continued to be one of the most ineptly run tech companies in existence. It took them over HALF A DECADE to come up with an answer for the iPhone. That's completely ridiculous especially considering they were sitting atop the smartphone throne at the time. How long did it take Palm to come up with a competitive platform? Wasn't it around 2 years? And that was on a shoestring budget. Microsoft built a ground up rewrite with Windows Phone 7 in about the same timeframe after they abandoned the planned mild 'touchification' of WM 6. I'm not saying BlackBerry will be dead in a few years, but I'm also not optimistic that this happened soon enough to win back the mind share they need to compete. It's much easier to see a mobile landscape dominated by Android and iOS, with Windows Phone/Windows RT/Windows 8 filling in any enterprise gap that's left.Reply

Not trying to troll, but this would have been great 2 years ago. it is a little too late to get people to switch when they are already entrenched in other platforms. For example, I will not repurchase apps that I already bought for myself on android, and for my wife on iOS.

Why was RIM soo stubborn, they could have gotten the same look and function by skinning android and adding a hardware encryption and it would have been released 2 years ago. it boggles my mind how long it took to get this out. And then have the audacity to ask all the android devs to just do a straight port of their apps. If you wanted android apps.Reply